Trump last week said he wanted to see the much of the country opening back up by Easter.
President Donald Trump on Sunday announced he's extending his administration's guidelines on social distancing amid the COVID-19 outbreak until April 30.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coordinator of the White House coronavirus task force, said the choice to extend the guidelines was not made lightly. At the briefing later on Sunday, Fauci said,"The reason the president made the announcement today about going to the end of April is because we want to make sure that we don't prematurely think we're doing so great."Trump said his administration was extending the guidelines with hopes of avoiding a catastrophic death toll.
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